YOURSAY 'Here is an admission from an Umno MP that he demands, together with other Umno MPs, contracts from the BN government.'

Umno MP: Only cowards don't demand contracts

Odin: What Bung Moktar Radin (Umno MP from Kinabatangan) has told us isn't an earth-shattering piece of news. It has been very obvious that Umno Baru-BN has been giving lucrative contracts besides all sorts of other cash cows to its politicians all these years.

We have seen how, for example, a certain politician habitually splashed hundreds of thousands on his mistress. A few of the male ones take on extra wives or keep voluptuous mistresses who are invariably young enough to be their daughters.

Then there are those who live well beyond their means and have children owning and running multi-million-ringgit and billion-ringgit businesses.

In East Malaysia, those who once have had to wipe their backsides with twigs - or, if they were lucky, with old newspapers - at their attap huts and longhouses own multi-million-ringgit mansions and strings of businesses.

FellowMalaysian: I think it is common knowledge that BN MPs aspire to be given contracts as rightly attested by Bung Moktar, whose intrepid claim that to shun asking for contracts is cowardice must have confounded, surprised and shamed even the most arduous supporters of his claim.

For someone who is brazen and audacious enough to make lewd and offensive sexist jokes while debating in Parliament, Bung Moktar's conduct and manners are beyond being atrocious.

Unfortunately, he is often let off the hook only to return the next parliamentary session with more unimaginably shocking rants.

Anonymous_3e86: The Umno general assembly is all about getting contracts for projects. Who votes for who depends on the promises of projects. It's an open secret - everyone knows about the awarding of projects without tenders.

Bung only clumsily admitted it. But the sad thing is that the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) and the authorities will not lift a finger to persecute those involved in this corrupt practice.

Hello: Wherefore art thou MACC? Here is an admission from an Umno MP that he demands, together with other Umno MPs, contracts from the BN government. If this is not corruption, cronyism and rent-seeking, what is?

Toonarmy: Had this confession came from a Pakatan Rakyat representative, you can be sure 90 percent of the MACC, half of the PDRM (Royal Malaysia Police) and Special Branch would have joined in marching him or her off to MACC's HQ to be questioned for 72 hours non-stop.

But since Bung Moktar is a member of the illegitimate and corrupt regime, the MACC will go after the persons who lodges police reports against him.

OMG!!: So Bung Moktar is confirming that all the BN politicians are looters? So BN politics is all about power and contracts? So successive PMs have abused their oaths of office and have played Santa Claus at the people's expense?

Versey: The attitude and quality of the elected MP is a direct reflection of the constituents he/she represents, whether it is rural or urban constituency.

Similarly, the quality of the elected representatives of a party is also a reflection of its party and a clear indication of the intelligence, awareness of the importance of social service and social justice of the party members and party supporters.

Bung Moktar is quite a straight-forward person and what he said shows clearly that he (together with the party behind him) and the majority of Malaysians are poles apart in cognisance of good governance.

2 Tim 1:7: If one cannot see that it is the ‘ketuanan' nonsense which causing the controversy to combust, then one is not getting the picture at all.

Newly arrived immigrants from Indonesia who never had a share in our struggle for Merdeka have usurped the place of the indigenous people of West Malaysia (Orang Asli) and the Borneo states (Kadazan-Dusun, Bajau, Brunei Malays, Murut in Sabah; Dayaks, Iban, Bidayuh, etc in Sarawak) and are calling themselves as bumiputeras (sic).

The public sector, the police and the GLCs (government-linked companies) are filled with these Johnny-come-latelies while we minorities who can trace our domicile in the country to several decades before their arrival on our shores are relegated to third-class citizenship.

Just as an universal negative cannot be falsified, so also the extraordinarily elastic term 'Malay' has no validity. Muslims from India and Chinese born here who have found it gainful to convert to Islam have all been subsumed under the Malay classification.

In short, 'Malay' is rendered void by a multitude of anomalies. While we minorities pay the bulk of the tax money, our children find it next to impossible get government scholarships or places in publicly-funded universities and colleges.

And otherwise too the pendatang from Indonesia are beneficiaries of a host of exclusive privileges and benefits at our expense.

A coterie of kleptocratic men with the moral code of the Malacca Straits pirates is using the organs of government to divide Malaysian society by race and religion with the end of enriching themselves and their cronies.

A significant portion of the income and profits of privatised entities goes back to key figures of the regime through a labyrinth of paths: proxies, shell companies contrived cost overruns and illicit outflows, etc.

Negotiated tenders likewise facilitate the transfer of large amounts of taxpayers' money to the private bank accounts of ministers and the other public officials. It is no consolation to us minorities that the Public Services Department (PSD) has drastically reduced the number of scholarships for all ethnic groups.

For the truth is that what 'Malay' students lose at the PSD, they recover from the GLCs and banks owned by Umno or its cronies. Non-Malay students don't have this advantage.

When our approach to the fascistic agenda which the regime is unswervingly promoting should be of the same magnitude as the Boston Tea Party and the Storming of the Bastille, we seem to be content with merely whingeing at its excesses and at the apartheid bent of its policies.

It cannot be that we derive masochistic pleasure from the persecution. Let us then avail ourselves of people's power. Of course, we can hear Tennessee Ernie Ford's wake-up call: 'Sixteen Tons'.

Caripasal: Of course, Pakatan leaders are cowards. They know they will be prosecuted immediately if caught with corruption. They may even be 'forced to commit suicide' over a small tender.

But BN politicians are very brave purely because they know MACC and the Attorney-General's Chambers are blind.

MockingYou: I overheard somebody joked about this in the coffeeshop - "Cowards don't demand contracts, but only fools admit to doing it."

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